Can Birds Actually Deliver Messages?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2025
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You know NOTHING, Jon Snow!
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Amazon should send stuff using pigeons
I can just imagine "I see one feller!" And there goes my Amazon package
Honorablewolf Maybe you should order a dictionary from them.
Nilguiri why?
Honorablewolf I see your dictionary arrived already. That was quick! Did it come by carrier pigeon?
Nilguiri a dictionary is used to find the meaning of words...
"this is a pretty big but"
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Maybe the birds are really anacondas?
Rich Homie Cos not so big, looks like it was overcome.
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ani_veanohi when a girl walks in itty-bitty waist.
The ravens in ASIOAF (GoT) work exactly the same way as pigeons do irl. Any raven cannot be sent to any location.
There is some extra lore regarding ravens carrying messages but I would go into potential spoiler territory but you can probbly read about it in common asoiaf wikis
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Alma94 Because when you yawn really hard, you press brain fluid out of your eyes.
It's just an hypothesis so far.
undercoverduck ASAPscience is more fun though...
By putting JON SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW in thumbnail you basically increased the views of this video by some %
Hahahah i know right!!!
But Jon Snow knows nothing :/
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Jon Snow gets raped to death by daggers of nights watch!
Voice of Reason that's my fetish
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John snow is the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, there is no way he is acctually going to die...
That would not make any sense in the plot, I'm sure he will fly one of the 3 dragons and the "death" is just used to get him out of the oath to the nights watch... ;)
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Lol
Awwww yeaaaahhh!!!!!!
Tbh I always wondered how these birds were supposed to know where everyone and everything was located.
This does explain why in The Legend of Korra we hear nothing of Sokka's messenger hawk though. When it was ordered to fly to his grandma it probably just went in any random direction and died of starvation because it never learned to hunt due to its life in captivity.
How do you get the pigeon to fly to the desired destination from the nest?
Meta Self Food.
adtc So you place their food some place away from their nest and their follow that particular material and no other food along the way?
Meta Self that's what he said. I have the same question as well.
adtc Yeah I heard that too. It's pretty unclear.
Presumably someone has to just bring it there in a cage.
Carrier pigeons were also used in WWI & 2 in several recorded instances by both British and German forces.
My grandad used to have a attic full o pigeons specialy for the job to deliver messages . :)
What about owls, like Hedwig from Harry Potter?
Dominic Guye Don't you bring Hedwig up.
Hedwig!! No! 😭🥺
No they can’t send letters
Owls aren't smart enough irl
This news dissapoints me
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Seriously, we don't.
Shut up about it :D
You just broke the first unspoken rule of The 301 club...
MrFreakshow182 its the counting algorithm youtube uses to deter botnets,miss-clicks, and false links. the number 301 was arbitrary chosen but 302 can occur under rare circumstances if 2 people request get address at the same exact time.
You did break unspoken rule... Both of you.
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Ummm what's the second rule :)
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I HAVE A BURNING QUESTION!!!!
Why are we either lefty's or righty's? Why can't we all just be both?
I know some people are born being able to use both, but what about the average person?
CookieJar Productions because left handed people are the devil
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You can use your left,after practice (years,possibly)
It depends on which part of your brain is "stronger" left part=right handed, right part=left handed
Thanks for the video!! I always used to wonder, how do birds get to know where and to whom they should deliver the messages. Now I know the whole story :)
Thank you, I've been so curious about this for soooooo long! Appreciate it guys!
In Animal Bio while learning about extinction, we learned that the pigeons who were once used to deliver messages were killed in thousands by hunters while playing pigeon-shooting-type sports game. No but really it was an actual hunting sport!
You know you smirked when he said," but and this is a pretty big BUT..."
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Pigeons be like:
Delivering mails is mainstream...
Let's create Twitter!
Conclusion of this: you still know nothing John Snow...
"They have great eyesight and use the sun and the stars, landscapes, odors, soundwaves, and potentially even the earth's magnetic field to locate home."
Shouldn't that be Hodors?
0:22 omg jon snow is sooooooo cuuuuuute
I am here because of Battlefield 1 Pigeon mission
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The video is talking about ravens from a fantasy novel NOT being able to deliver messages. I'd say in a world were dragons exist, having ravens with message delivering capabilities is not much of a stretch.
But seriously, who thought birds could ACTUALLY send messages?
They strap the message on ther leg
WolfiisauR This is a tad weird. Cause i feel the exact same way, except the opposite. Who thought birds couldn't actually send messages? Took it for granted that everyone would've known this.
Zlx Yeah, I don't know what's up with this. lol. People don't even comprehend that the piece of paper is tied to their leg and is really small. I've only EVER heard of pidgins doing it.
Mr.Klowny
Message tied around their leg, this knowledge is so basic. It's a tiny note as well. That's why you can't write a whole analysis of a deceased king. You just wrote "The king is facking dead" and that would be the end of it. xD
WolfiisauR my waifu (hiroshimachan) thought our genetically-enhanced japonian red blossom pid'jon could.
Actually, in GoT, it is mentioned that certain ravens carry messages to certain places. So, they did get that one right.
0:46 "but thats a pretty big but" ASAPSCIENCE -2015
I had this Question from when I was small, and used to hear stories from Grandpa..
Well, us witches can always bewitch Ravens!
So I've had experiences with witches and ravens haha
***** Thank you! But I'm already in love with Ron Weasley, and kind of have 3 kids...but maybe in another life, if you believe in that stuff.
I think when a raven is used as a messenger on a show or in a book its a literary call back to Norse mythology. Odin had two ravens who reported to him on what was going on is the realms. Their names are hugin and muinin which translates to thought and memory.
My cousin in my country did something like this once. He had a pigeon he took care of, and when he would go to another city, he would bring the pigeon with him, let him go there. and the pigeon would fly back to my cousins city of origin.
0:50 OMFG ONE DIRECTION!!!!!❤️❤️
Nice video once again! I actually learn something in these 3 minute videos which is great.
Pigeon after delivering a message: “aww shit.. here we go again”
Huh, I always assumed they could just go anywhere. Media makes it seem like you can say "go here" and they go there without a problem.
I can't get past the way he said "sorry" like a stereotypical Canadian
I had always wondered how carrier pigeons knew where to go to deliver a message. Clever!
Messenger pigeons "DUH" oh yeah tWiTTer 🤣.
You can still justify it in GOT because Westeros was recently united therefor each important place would've bred and sent ravens via cages to other important place's so everybody could quickly send out a Raven to go back to where it was bred. But also there's magic n stuff.
Better explanation of this than I saw in other videos I checked out.
I'm making an assumption, but i believe they were explicitly trained in the fantasy genre Song of Ice & Fire to make deliveries. That coupled with magic and giants and you've got yourself a few more ASAP Science videos :).
I was literally wondering how they get the birds to do this last night while in bed haha ...
At 0:31, are you saying there was the Olympics 1000 years before they started counting years, the first known Olympics was in 1896, Buts its believed the oldest one was in 393.
The Yoll channel trained an owl to deliver mail. Two videos of it went viral on TH-cam.
Truck driver: oh no! i crashed! i need to deliver the mail though! help!
pigeon: ok. bye
pigeon: *he doesnt know im transporting it somewhere else*
pigeon: *hits the tree*
*the mail arrives to their destinations*
truck driver: yay my job is done bye
pigeon: >.
I can't be the only one who was thinking about Hedwig and was disappointed because he didn't mention owls.
Funnily enough, the thing about Ravens in GoT is actually possible, since we are not talking about earth and other animals might evolve differently on other planets given to their conditions
I would like to know this "why does the hair on your head grow back to the exact same shape even after it's being completely shaved. If it was curly ,it grows back curly and if it were straight it grows back straight" why does this happen ??
Genes. Genetic makeup tells hair cells what kind of hair you'll have no matter how much you shave them.
Yeah and apparently radiotherapy can alter this too.
Finally I get the answer to one of the questions I was too afraid to google
Yeah you can use pigeons to deliver mail. I remember back in the 80s me and my homies would send mail to each other by the nyc pigeons in the bronx.
Joe King lol
"One direction" *starts smirking*
"Sooory, Jon Snow" Your Canadian is showing.
Who needs science when you have audible?
Sending a bird to wherever you want?? Well.... That is so fetch!!
hahahahahahahahaha no go!
please do an episode on how headphones and cords gets so tangled when you put them in a bag or pocket
Pigeons are master navigators! Side note: Kind of messed up how people used to just kidnapped a bunch of pigeons from their home
Question: if their source of food is in another location and they are trapped there until someone needs to send a message, would the pigeons consider THAT place as their home instead?
My neighbor trains pigeons as messenger and don't know what els. He had over 20 bird flying over his house for hrs. He takes them to other cities and states and they all come back to him after a few days. As kid I've always walk by his house and wonder why he did that for a living.
"They were successfully used, nearly 3000 years ago, to declare the winner of the Olympics"
You wot m8?
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I always asked myself, if you buy a pigeon, how doe you prevent it from coming back to the store/previous owner?
what i'm more interested in is will my birds carry coconuts.
You had me at John snow
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Asap science: Are phones disrupting our sleep?
The ravens in GoT also have to be brought from the desired destination.
It's actually explained in the books why ravens can send messages long distances in the GoT world. The fifth book if I remember rightly.
Crows can recognize faces and can be train to send messages to specific people
Awesome vid guys! 😊
Next week: Is it really possible to put an "engine" in a wagon and "drive" to work?
I have wondered this for a while thanks for bringing it up!
we have birds deliverying letters 3000 years before GTA 6
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What is worse standing for to long or sitting for to long?
Why if more than one person is singing a song and one sings a lyric wrong do the others usually say it wrong to?
WHAT OF HEDWIG AND PIGWIDGEON AND ALL THE HARRY POTTER OWLS HUH??
AsapSCIENCE Does fire/flames have shadow? Answer this, please!
Consider this system: a candle with a flame, and use a lamp or sunlight for an external source of light. I think it depends on the intensity and the wavelength domain of the external source of light. Maybe also depends on the composition of the gas burning or the chemicals involved.
Owls seem to do the best job.
I've always assumed that each raven in game of thrones only has one destination
Imagine if game of thrones did use pigeons. It'd feel pretty silly, so I think George just made them canon work like pigeons do in real life, so it's a pretty good compromise i'd say
They get lost, stolen and injured too, I've had to look after 3 that got exhausted and lost and had to be picked up. Sending a drone is probably more realistic.
I saw a dead pigeon on the street once. It was dead because a falcon pierced it's insides while it was carrying it over a street and then accidentally dropped it. Ar car soon ran over it. That was one hell of a day.
Wait, so am I right in thinking you can only use the pigeon once then? How would you get it back to the other side? It's a one way message? (I didn't really get the 'food' thing. How can a pigeon only have its food that far away in distance?)
GoT ravens also actually fly to one location only. Also, they used to be magic ravens, read the books, folks!
Cool info. Thanks for sharing.
Fun fact in WW1 a pigeon saved a American battalion in the Argonne offensive while the pigeon got shot in the leg it still went going and saved many lives
You said they "potetially" use the magnetic field, and right after that, that they have an internal compass. But isnt the internal compass only working with the magnetic field of the earth? So in consequence the pigeons use the magnetic field not just potentially right?
When I see movies with people travelling all over the place and using a bird to send messages back and forth between two groups, both on the go, it makes me want to scream. (Ardeth Bay with his falcon in The Mummy Returns is a prime example). It just doesn't work that way!
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I used to be followed by groups of ravens. Huge ones. What does that mean?
Ravens can memorise human faces so they either liked you, thought you were easy prey, or saw you as a threat
I've also communicated with demons who are believed to identify themselves as ravens according to the internet. Not all of them but the ones I specifically spoke with
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Interesting!
sciencetutorial4u ikr I have 6 homing pigeons they are amazing